The Vietnam War - The Illustrated History of the Conflict in Southeast Asia

As France failed to regain control over its Indochinese colonies following WWII, the U.S. poured massive military and economic aid upon the South Vietnamese. It feared the whole region might come under Communist control. There followed one of the bloodiest conflict in the history of warfare, fully documented here in words and images. Authoritative text and hundreds of contemporary photos emphasize the tremendously difficult military and political problems encountered in Southeast Asia. This book, which so forcefully chronicles the acts of war and barbarism in the region, also looks sympathetically at the tragic victims of the conflict, and conflicts which stemmed from it: the millions killed and wounded as the Vietnamese Communists waged war with the French, the South Vietnamese, the United States, Kampuchea and China. It also reports the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the oppression and brutality, and creating international tension in their desperate search for safety...